Trump’s Budget Plan Puts Taxpayers First

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget was officially unveiled Tuesday, and liberals who favor big government and massive spending immediately set about rending their garments and tearing out their hair in utter agony.

According to Breitbart, Trump’s budget has been described as a “taxpayer-first budget,” one that audaciously proposed cuts totaling nearly $1.7 trillion from a variety of entitlement programs, largely through strengthening work requirements and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.

Those savings coincide with deep cuts to various departments like the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, which could see their funding cut by nearly a third, all in a bid to actually balance the budget within 10 years.

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“Conservatives will love it; moderates will probably hate it,” summarized one White House official familiar with the proposal, according to Axios.

It is worth pointing out that Trump’s proposal was heavily based on three major assumptions, the first being that the economy will experience a growth rate of around 3 percent — not unheard of, but nothing that has been seen in recent years.

The other two assumptions were that the Obamacare repeal and replacement bill — the American Health Care Act — will be passed by Congress and signed into law, as will be the much ballyhooed tax reform proposals that businesses are anxiously awaiting.

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Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, spoke with the media regarding the proposed budget plan, according to Axios. He reiterated that it should be titled the “Taxpayer First Budget,” as it was written “through the eyes of the people who were actually paying the bills.”

“It balances for the first time in at least 10 years … The previous administration completely gave up on that,” Mulvaney said of the budget proposal. “If I take money from you and I have no intention of ever paying it back, that’s not debt, that is theft.”

This shows once again that Trump is serious about at least attempting to restore fiscal sanity to a bloated government with out-of-control spending habits. Obviously, the actual finished product of a budget that emerges from Congress some time later this year — assuming they don’t simply kick the can down the road by passing more “continuing resolutions” — will be far different than that proposed by Trump, but even if they only meet him halfway on his bold proposals, that is a step in the right direction.

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